EMBER AND BLADE
Fan-Made Community WikiEmber and Blade wiki: the January 2027 Early Access date on both official counts, which platforms are in at launch, what the free demo covers and how the combo and Blessing systems actually work.
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Your Ember and Blade Journey
Learn the Combat
Light and heavy attacks branch into different combos, and every dash costs stamina. Start with the two systems everything else hangs on.
Play the Demo
Act 1 is free right now. It is also the only place to try the Sword, the Hammer and the Shotgun before January.
Understand Blessings
Five angels, one slot per action. Where you link a Blessing changes what it does more than which Blessing you picked.
Check Your Platform
PC at Early Access, PS5 and Xbox Series with the full release, and no Switch version announced.
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Ember and Blade Release Date: January 7 or January 8?
Two official sources, two dates, seven days apart from nothing. The gap is a time zone, and the store countdown is the one that applies to your region.
Ember and Blade Beginner Guide: The First Two Hours
Act 1 is one long field that ends in a boss room, and the demo gives you three weapons and no advice. Here is the order that costs the fewest runs.
Ember and Blade Blessings: Angels, Links and Sets
A Blessing is not one effect. Where you link it — light attack, heavy attack or dash — changes its projectiles, its count and its timing.
Ember and Blade Weapons: All Five Confirmed Types
Six types are planned and five have been named. The demo hands you three, a leaderboard event names a fourth, and one is a complete mystery.
Ember and Blade Characters: All Twelve Named So Far
Two official reveals named ten characters, the store page adds the archdemon, and the Sanctuary adds a golem pair. One of them is playable.
Ember and Blade Bosses: Baphomet and the Judicators
Only one boss is fully documented because only Act 1 is playable. Two more tiers are named, and one of them is the reason the game exists.
What is Ember and Blade?
Ember and Blade is a survivors-like action RPG from LINE Games in which you play Fenrix, a demon hunter kept half-immortal by an angel's pact, cutting through hordes inside the seal that has held the archdemon Asmodeus for five hundred years.
It keeps the shape of the genre — huge enemy counts, escalating runs, blessings that stack — but puts the attack button back in your hands. Combos branch by input order, dashes and heavy attacks spend stamina, and elites drop links that bind a Blessing to a specific action. The result plays closer to a beat-'em-up than to an auto-attacker.
The game enters Early Access on PC in January 2027. A free demo covering Act 1 has been live since July 2025 and has been rebuilt twice since.
- Developer
- LINE Games
- Publisher
- LINE Games
- Early Access
- January 2027
- Platforms
- PC (Windows, macOS)
- Genre
- Survivors-like action RPG
- Players
- Single-player
- Weapons
- 6 types planned
- Demo
- Free, Act 1
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Answers first, reference tables under them, and a date on every page.
Release & Platforms
The January 8 date, the Steam listing that says January 7, and which consoles are waiting for the full release.
Combat & Stamina
How combo branches work, what drains stamina, when Flash Counter fires and how to break a boss.
Blessings
Five angels, three link slots, and why the same Blessing behaves differently on a dash than on a heavy attack.
Weapons
Six types are planned; the demo hands you three. Sword, Hammer and Shotgun compared by what they ask of you.
Bosses
Baphomet closes Act 1, the Judicators of Fate sit above him, and Asmodeus is the reason any of this is sealed.
Characters
Twelve named faces from the two official reveals, from Fenrix to the golem siblings who keep the Sanctuary running.
Progression
Amber, Dew, Claynite, Shards and Blood Crysts each feed a different system. Here is which is which.
Patch Notes
Every demo update since July 2025, newest first, with what changed for the player rather than for the build.
Frequently Asked Questions
The questions that show up in autocomplete, answered without a preamble.
Early Access on PC, January 8, 2027, in LINE Games' own announcement. The Steam page lists January 7, 2027. Both are official; the difference is the time zone each date was written in, so the unlock lands on the 7th for some regions and the 8th for others.
Yes, but not at Early Access. PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S versions are planned to arrive alongside the full release. Only the PC build ships in January.
No. Nintendo Switch has never appeared in a platform list, an announcement or a store page for this game.
No. The demo store page states it directly: progress in the demo does not carry over to the full game. Treat Act 1 as practice.
It is single-player only. Steam lists Single-player as the sole player mode, with no co-op or multiplayer category attached.
No price has been announced for Early Access, and the store page carries no price block yet. The demo is free and needs no purchase.
Ten interface languages: English, Korean, Simplified Chinese, French, German, Spanish (Spain), Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian and Arabic. English is the only language with full audio.
The published minimum is a GTX 1050 Ti class card with 4GB of VRAM and 8GB of RAM, targeted at 720p 30fps on the lowest preset. An RTX 3060 class card and 16GB is the 1080p 60fps target, waves included.
Start With the Two Systems That Decide a Run
Combos and stamina are what Demo 2.0 rebuilt from the ground up, and they are what separates a clean Act 1 clear from a death at the first elite.